Talent Officer - Aldar Education

Job Description

Aldar Education is currently seeking a Talent Officer to support our growing family of owned and operated schools based in HQ office, Abu Dhabi. The successful candidates will be closely aligned with our core values and ethos and possess a genuine understanding and appreciation of the values of the region.

As the leading education group in Abu Dhabi, we provide inclusive and innovative learning that inspires and empowers communities. We offer a range of brands for all learners in our community, from nursery through to adult education. We offer the broadest choice of curricula. In the largest number of locations in Abu Dhabi.

Starting with one school and 250 students in 2007, Aldar Education has grown into a highly sought-after education provider, now supporting over 38,000 students in 31 schools and a growing network of almost 5,000 educators, with over 100 nationalities, offering a wide range of curricula and ancillary services such as a Teacher Training Academy.

Working collaboratively, our education network’s purpose is to empower the next generation to shape our future, directly supporting the educational goals of Abu Dhabi’s government. Today, Aldar Education’s efforts are guided by the Abu Dhabi Economic Vision 2030 plan, which aims to build a sustainable knowledge-based economy through premium education.To manage and achieve AE education/non-education recruitment objectives and meet the organization staffing needs.

To be directly engaged and be responsible for end-to-end recruitment process from planning, advertising, sourcing, attracting, scheduling and interviewing to on-boarding employees.

To implement set sourcing strategies to build pipelines of potential applicants, create and implement end-to-end candidate hiring processes to ensure a positive experience and form close relationships with hiring managers to ensure clear candidate/interviewer expectations.

Responsibilities

Main Duties:

• Assist in implementing the company recruitment strategies to target and on-board high- quality employees.
• Oversee and mange end-to-end recruitment process from approvals to formulating job description, sourcing, interviewing and extending contracts.
• Manage the recruiting process to meet hiring goals through the use of effective resource management by using ie the Company’s ApplicationTracking System (ORC), relevant job boards and social media.
• Work with internal teams and hiring managers to support with recruitment process.
• Provide recruitment counselling and guidance to hiring managers for ie, selection criteria for candidates.
• Create job descriptions and interview questions that reflect the requirements for each position.
• Identify and refine down the most suitable talent from available candidates.
• Assess candidates’ information, including CVs, portfolios and references.
• Support organizing and attend job fairs and recruitment events to build a strong candidate pipeline and identify talents for the company.
• Collaborate with the internal P&C teams for timely employee on-boarding and orientation.
• Maintain and promote company policies and procedures pertaining to the recruitment process established.
  
  
  

Specific Duties:

• Identify areas for process improvement in the Talent Section and proactively suggest solutions.
• Guide and train new Talent Team members on processes or usage of portals.
• Maintain company’s policy for talent benchmarking, talent assessment and interviewing.
• Manage the entire recruiting lifecycle to meet our various and ever-changing staffing goals across all levels, locations, and business units.
• Source applicants through online channels, such as LinkedIn and other professional networks as well as maintaining relationship with external recruitment and souring agencies.
• Design, plan and execute selection processes (conduct screens & interviews and collaborate with hiring manager).
• Work closely and communicate consistently with hiring managers to foster timeliness, accuracy, and completion of the recruiting process.
• Drive actively the new school recruitment process to ensure staffing in line with approved business plan.
• Provide HQ and Schools recruitment status updates to management weekly.
• Initiate, monitor, review and report candidates background checks and safer recruitment procedures.
• Represent company internally and externally at events with a goal of networking and relationship building with potential candidate communities.
• Manage respective candidate pools to ensure qualified candidates remain engaged in current or future opportunities.
• Support UAEN recruitment and identify/highlight strong potential profiles for future employment.
• Prepare and manage employment contracts and candidates’ communications on employment related matters.
• Issue temp contract extension (when applicable and approved).
• Administer, submit and ensure accuracy of all employment documents for new employees and liaise with GR team for visa and MOL contract processing.
• Coordinate with 3rd party vendors and negotiate contracts where required.
• Assess new agencies or platforms based on offering process technical evaluations.
• Oversee the onboarding process for new HQ employees.
• Update and inform related sections with newly hired employees ie. Payroll, Operations.
• Implement and analyse post boarding surveys and provide related reports.
• Drive weekly Talent reports and ensure accuracy in data submission,
• Keep records of all materials/documents used for recruitment, including interview notes and related paperwork, to share with key stakeholders.
• Be proactive in social media recruitment, vacancy marketing and headhunting.
• Work closely with marketing department to develop creative ways for addressing talent acquisition challenges.
• Share internal vacancies across the group to support transparency and equity.
• Active contribution to achieve the P&C annual scorecard.
• Other duties as required.
  
  
  

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Human Resources Management or similar
  
  
  

Minimum Experience :

• 2-3 years of experience in Talent Acquisition; Experience in the Education sector of advantage.
  
  
  

Job Specific Knowledge & Skills:

• Fluent English communication skills, written and oral;
• Ability to maintain the highest level of discretion, diplomacy and confidentiality.
• Experience with full-cycle recruiting, using various interview techniques and evaluation methods.
• Pro-active approach towards task or improvement ideas.
• Good understanding of ADEK/similar govt body requirement.
• Good knowledge of Applicant Tracking Systems (ie Oracle) and other related job boards.
• Experience in using LinkedIn Talent Solutions to proactively source candidates.
• Experience in mass recruitment.
• Ability to think ahead and out of the box.
• Attention to details with diligent follow up, and able to execute in a timely manner.
• Proficient in using MS Office.
• Work in a highly collaborative and effective manner, both independently and in cross-functional teams.
• Proven ability to build, manage and foster a team-oriented environment
• Easily adapts to a fast-paced environment
• Excellent interpersonal skills.
• Skilled in multi-tasking and handling pressure.
• Demonstrates accountability for own tasks and responsibilities.
• Strong organizational and prioritization skills with the ability to handle multiple projects at the same time.
• Possess flexibility and has a history of delivering results in a changing and highly ambiguous work environment.
• Strong problem-solving skills, along with customer service and team orientation skills.
• Takes responsibility for own learning and encourages others to the do the same.
  
  
  

This job description is not all-inclusive. Aldar Education reserves the right to amend this job description at any time. We are an equal opportunity employer, committed to a diverse and inclusive work environment. We are also mindful of our national development strategy and encourage UAE Nationals in their application at our company.

Aldar Education is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff to share this commitment. Offers of appointment are subject to satisfactory references and police